OVERVIEW OF MICROSOFT INTERNET CONNECTION SHARING

Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing enables you to configure your home computer network to share a single connection to the Internet.

With Internet connection sharing, the computers in your home network are used as follows:

         The Connection Sharing computer (sometimes called the gateway) www.tartoos.com

                 The computer that connects your home to the Internet also   provides some of what makes Internet connection sharing possible: 

private Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and name  resolution services for the other computers on the home network. 

         Other networked computers 

                 The other computers set up to use Microsoft Internet  Connection Sharing on your network can access the Internet 

                 through the Connection Sharing computer, using private IP addressing translation. 

When a computer on your network sends a request to the Internet, its private IP address is transmitted to the Connection Sharing computer. 

The Connection Sharing computer translates that private IP address to the IP address of the Connection Sharing computer, 

and then sends it on to the Internet. When the results are returned, the Connection Sharing computer translates the IP 

address back again and routes it to the correct computer on your network. www.tartoos.com

The only computer on your home network visible to the Internet--meaning, having a direct connection--is the Connection Sharing computer. 

Other computers on your home network connect to the Internet through the Connection Sharing computer. 

They do not have direct connections to the the Internet. 

If you set up Internet Connection Sharing to use automatic addressing,Internet Connection Sharing 

uses the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). 

DHCP dynamically assigns private IP addresses to all computers on the home network. 

You can also disable the automatic addressing service and statically assign an IP address to each computer on the network.

USING THE BROWSER CONNECTION SETUP WIZARDwww.tartoos.com

Connecting to the Internet using the Connection Sharing computer is quick and easy using the Browser Connection Setup wizard. The wizard 

sets up your browser to connect to the Internet using your network adapter instead of a dial-up adapter. When you've completed the wizard, 

you are ready to browse the Internet through your local network.